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Oscars: What Should Have Won – JFK for Best Picture over The Silence of the Lambs

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Graeme Robertson on why JFK should have won Best Picture at the 64th Academy Awards… The Oscars celebrating the best of 1991 was a little more business as usual when compared to the stellar line-up of a year like the 1976 nominations. We had some good films, but not many that would go on to be […]

Movie Review – Havenhurst (2016)

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Havenhurst, 2016. Directed by Andrew C. Erin. Starring Julie Benz, Belle Shouse, Josh Stamberg, Danielle Harris and Fionnula Flanagan. SYNOPSIS: Recovering alcoholic Jackie moves into the ominous Havenhurst building in an attempt to figure what happened to her friend Danielle who has suddenly gone missing. The Havenhurst building is advertised as a place from which […]

Oscars: What Should Have Won – Network over Rocky for Best Picture

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Graeme Robertson on why Network should have won Best Picture at the 49th Academy Awards… The Oscars celebrating the best of 1976 were a rarity, in that, almost all of the nominees for Best Picture are truly excellent and have gone on to become celebrated classics. While Sylvester Stallone’s Rocky ultimately triumphed against its formidable […]

Film Quality IS Subjective: A Film Is Good Because We Say It Is

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Graeme Robertson on why film quality is subjective… It’s a wonderful job being a film critic. Being able to watch films and write about them all hours of the day and night, discussing them with your fellow critics and generally have a merry old time talking about how wonderful it is to be a film […]

New Year Horrors – End of Days (1999)

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End of Days, 1999. Directed by Peter Hyams. Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Gabriel Byrne, Robin Tunny, Kevin Pollak, and Rod Steiger. SYNOPSIS: On the eve of the new Millennium, alcoholic former New York cop Jericho Cane finds himself at the centre of an ancient conflict between good and evil involving a young woman whom he must […]

12 Days of Christmas Horror: Day 12 – Silent Night Deadly Night Part 2 (1987)

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Silent Night Deadly Night Part 2, 1987. Directed By Lee Harry. Starring Eric Freeman, Elizabeth Kaitan, James L Newman and Jean Miller. SYNOPSIS: Years after his older brother Billy went on a killing spree, young Ricky finds himself incarcerated and telling his story to a psychiatrist. As Ricky tells the doctor about the events of […]

12 Days of Christmas Horror: Day 11 – Silent Night Deadly Night (1984)

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Silent Night Deadly Night, 1984. Directed by Charles E. Seller Jr. Starring Lilyan Chauvin, Gilmer McCormick, Toni Nero and Robert Brian Wilson. SYNOPSIS: After witnessing the brutal murder of his parents at the hands of a criminal in a Santa outfit and forced to endure a brutal upbringing at the hands of a strict Mother […]

12 Days of Christmas Horror: Day 10 – Krampus (2015)

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Krampus, 2015. Directed by Michael Dougherty. Starring Adam Scott, Emjay Anthony, Toni Collette, David Koechner, Conchata Ferrell, Allison Tolman, Stefania LaVie Owen, Lolo Owen, Queenie Samuel, Luke Hawker, Ivy Geoge, Maverick Flack, Gideon Emery, and Krista Stadler. SYNOPSIS: A family gets together for the annual festive celebrations, but all is not well in the household […]

12 Days of Christmas Horror – Day 9: Black Mirror – White Christmas (2014)

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Black Mirror: White Christmas, 2014. Directed by Carl Tibbets. Starring Jon Hamm, Oona Chaplin and Rafe Spall. SYNOPSIS: Two strangers stationed at an isolated Arctic outpost tell each other three twisted festive tales each with a technological theme and a connection to the dark pasts of both men. We return once again to quite possibly […]

12 Days of Christmas Horror: Day 8 – The Children (2008)

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The Children, 2008. Directed by Tom Shankland. Starring Eva Birthistle, Hannah Tointon, Stephen Campbell Moore and Eva Sayer. SYNOPSIS: Two families get together to celebrate Christmas and usher in the New Year, but a strange illness seems to be spreading around the children. Things soon take a horrifying turn as the illness turns the children from […]